Full Name: Mark Tan Wen Min
Age: 18
Gender: Male
DOB: 27 March 1992
Faith: Baptist(Christianity)
Church: Faith Community Baptist Church
Graduated from: St Andrew's Jr Sch, Jurongville Sec Sch
School: Nanyang Polytechnic, School of Chemical and Life Science
Course: Pharmaceutical Sciences
Class: PS1003
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
It's the last day of the "Clean & Green" Carnival! Will be attending normal lessons on Friday again.I heard that Mr Kamarul will not be teaching us next year as he will be going for a course? I will miss him seriously... If he happens to see this post: I wish to say thank you and also good luck for your future! =) Thanks for teaching 3A! Recalling the events today, these two days are almost congruent. We continued to run our booth. We also visited other school's booth. The only thing significant is that it marks the last day of the event. At the end of the event, we have to take down all the exhibits. Sadly, THE LEAF was finally taken down. In these two days, I've learnt that it isn't the way THE LEAF was designed that made it look stunning, but rather the messages contributed by people of all walks of life that made the EMM a sucessful one. Those little children who contributed their EMM have very cute messages. Some drew cartoon, but at the same time conveyed the message for the environnment. Some simply copied from others' EMM. No matter what, the EMM is only sucessful and also beautiful only when everybody contributes. This applies to almost any other events, where the event is not sucessful unless the people get themselves involved in it. In total, the EMM summed up to a total of about 200. I didn't expect such an overwhelming number. I thought we were just going to slack at the booth and nobody wil be interested in the EMM. However I was proven wrong of my own perception. Many little children from many primary schools came, however, there are very little adults and secondary school students that came to visit us. Maybe thge public thought that the booth is specially dedicated to kids, with reference to the crowd of children at our booth.We packed up at about 2.30pm, preparing to leave for our destination, that is, school! Just about leaving the 403 hall, the "bodyguards"or the "man in black"(they were really wearing black!!!) stopped us from going back to school! I believe nobody understands why there will be MIB and "bodyguards" in an exhibition hall. They are actually known as the programme coordinator, but they act so much like MIBs! Firstly they wore black and it brought up the authority in them(making us feel very small). Then they sounded very strict and cold. Lucky they did not wear black-glasses, or they will be a pure MIB! I sensed biasness, as we saw Sembawang Secondary leaving infront of the MIB, yet they were indifferent of their departure.I really felt like punching them(However, thanks to self-control). We slacked around for about one hour half, visiting other booths. We didn't leave till 4pm, the timing where the bus has been postponed. Much thanks to the van-driver who brought us to and from Suntec. Despite our constant change in timing, and also long waiting time, he remained patient with us. He is one of the best driver I ever seen, with a good temper in all circumstance.Got reprimanded by my father yesterday for not attending IR rather than Clean and Green Carnival. He said I don't know how to be time-smart and also put priority to things more important, but I did not regret attending this carnival, as I had learnt a lot of lifeskills from this very event.
Mark Tan at 9:41 PM
